**Official** New Zealand in South Africa

[Bahnz]

That would've been a great over to a left hander...

 

[Flem274*]

10 overs until the new ball at say 3 rpo means we get the new ball when they reach 300.

We need wickets before the new ball, so get Franklin off.

 

[Howsie]

Is James Franklin the worst test cricketer going around?

 

[Flem274*]

Marto now bowling 15kph slower than his last outing, and down leg.

Bloody hell.

 

[Bahnz]

Still a lot of swing on display for a ball that's 70+ overs old.

 

[ohnoitsyou]

10 overs until the new ball at say 3 rpo means we get the new ball when they reach 300.

We need wickets before the new ball, so get Franklin off.

nah batsmen always play soft when facing franklin

 

[Zinzan]

Seriously, the last couple of overs would have been rubbish at club level. It's just giving free Test runs. So soft.

 

[Flem274*]

Wagner is the most overhyped bowler ever to get a test cap but he's better than this. Marto must have been camping on Franklin in the nets to make the team.

Seriously, Steve could bowl better than this pair.

edit: before Darlingface reminds me I picked Marto over Wagner before the test, I was picking him thinking he was going to bowl 130kph ten thousand miles outside off at worst, not 120kph down leg.

oh hey me yelling at Marto made him do well again. im good at this.

 

[Howsie]

lol, this is so, so bad. Martin still playing international cricket basically tells you everything that is wrong with New Zealand cricket. Old ****s that should've been culled seasons earlier being allowed to play on for as long as they want.

 

[Howsie]

 

[ohnoitsyou]

good news mitch and waggy will be bowling next game unless camp Hesson decide to play franklin again cause he is an allrounder cough allround piece of **** cough

 

[Bahnz]

Marto.

I'm absolutely fuming that the umpire was so gutless as to ask for that to be reviewed. He barely had his toe over the line, let alone his heel.

 

[Days of Grace]

That's ****ed his average, Tony.


LOL at Marto getting a wicket just when CWers are at the peak of getting stuck into him.

 

[Flem274*]

Phlegm and Howsie with the goods.

I've got an idea for a batting thread..

 

[straw man]

First ball I see from Martin - wicket.

Lifted a touch off the length, as many have on this wicket.

 

[Bahnz]

Oh go blow a goat misery-guts.

 

[straw man]

*** off Franklin, you bowl 100 kms and hour and still can't be accurate. Softest test cricketer ever. Mental strength of a ******** hedgehog.

 

[Flem274*]

and back to 124kph nothings.

 

[Flametree]

Did they have a 7-2 field, or a guy back on the square leg boundary for the new batsman facing his first ball having got a pair in his only other test?

 

[straw man]

Martin's bowling so slow he's almost getting loop like a spinner